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here's the perfect customer for BFR's http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027681/Pictured-The-state-art-luxuries-aboard-worlds-largest-cruise-ship.html Right now this ship just became a huge white elephant due to its size and the amount of fuel its powerplant will use. With BFR's thats not a pr...

You are in the molecular flow region. There are some tricks you can play around with to ensure that alpha particles only go in the directions you want and eliminate backscatter and sputtering. For instance you could make the grids as bank of short thin walled tubes. or layered sheet metal grids. If ...

$500 cat 5 ethernet cables.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1 ... roduct_top
If we really need shielded cables I can do much better, cheaper. No I will not cut a new orifice with a rusty box cutter.

And the federal gov got what in taxes. I like it when companies make profits. It means they will be able to attract more investments and grow. Do we give even more to the feds instead?

Simon I am reposting the comment I made on your blog a while back: A long time ago now I worked at DOE's Jefferson lab down in VA. One of the cool things they had there was a series of speakers come in every month or so. One of the speakers was the head of Plasma Physics at Princeton(the Tokamak peo...

Sen Inhofe agrees with me:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1212449 ... torialPage

I especially liked: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/numerical_models_integrated_ci.html Which hints at the troubles with modeling a BFR. Our process and reactor is simpler than CVD except for one curve ball (truly). Magnetic fields. In the current effort we are severely hampered by a lack of...

The Wall Street Journal editorial http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121236237789236363.html?mod=djemEditorialPage Sen. Lieberman is my senator and this is letter I sent him: Dear Senator Lieberman The Lieberman Warner bill cap and trade bill represent an enormous burden on the taxpayers and poor of Co...

I just was this post on a blog about how some generous benefactor gave Fermilab 5 million, not for some program or new experiment, but for the general operating budget. Have we gotten so poor that we can no longer get basic funding for stuff like this: http://depletedcranium.com/?p=626 How many earm...

This begs the question, are we not finding oil because there isn't any or because we are not looking? From what I have seen the oil exploration business essentially died due to low prices and the severe restrictions in the lower 48.

i have lived near the sea for my entire life. I have lived on Long Island Sound for a good part of that. I occasionally see the sea wall behind the house I grew up in. Living in that house for almost thirty years I know where the high tide line is. I have photographs dating back to the early part of...

USB feedthroughs
http://www.insulatorseal.com/urd/unifac ... ay?1.6.1.1

And vacuum cable. Bakeable to 160C

a polywell chamber will be much simpler because the magnets and the guts can all be mounted on flanges and the rest can be mounted on standard feedthroughs. That Tokamak design looked overly complicated and had, tom my min way to many joints and flange surfaces along with water where I would not wan...

The biggest problem with any safety system is people getting too familiar with it. Never be in a hurry. It's a sure way to die. Way too many people who should have known better have been fried by bypassing safety interlocks for "one more quick test". Even dinking around in your basement or garage. ...

* http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/user-advis/05-elec_safe_guides.html * This is for up to 15 KV, but it is a start. Very good stuff. I've used feedthroughs from all of the companies mentioned and they are very reliable. They did not mention instituting lockdown tag on procedures for all high voltage and...